Comments on: City Folk http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/07/14/city-folk/ Washington DC's Liveliest Theater Website Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:52:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: lorraine http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/07/14/city-folk/comment-page-1/#comment-3898 lorraine Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:24:09 +0000 http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=1665#comment-3898 I meant our rating icons to look like the Baldacchino tent tops at Fringe headquarters. Only the tents are white and our tops are sienna. Now that you mention it, they do look like unwrapped Hershey kisses. I meant our rating icons to look like the Baldacchino tent tops at Fringe headquarters. Only the tents are white and our tops are sienna. Now that you mention it, they do look like unwrapped Hershey kisses.

]]> By: Cringe Festival, more like http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/07/14/city-folk/comment-page-1/#comment-3896 Cringe Festival, more like Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:42:09 +0000 http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=1665#comment-3896 This review is far too kind. Inexperience is no excuse for actual torture. Whatever that second hershey's kiss thing is, it's horribly misleading. In fact, the first one is misleading. There is just no chance that there are other shows in Fringe this year that deserve fewer kisses. Do not attempt to watch this troupe sober. You may be under the impression that at least bad improv is laughably bad, but you will be proven painfully wrong. You're signing up for an hour of cringing, horrible shame on the actors' behalf (including intermission, which is not long enough to rinse the awful out of your brain). When, every 14 minutes or so, something comes within shooting distance of funny, involuntary pity laughter will burst awkwardly from your throat. You will leave wishing you'd hired a mule to kick you in the head for an hour instead. For the love of all that is good, do not go see this show. Go see that pompous-sounding drama about Nazis if you have to, but don't do this to yourself. Thank you and enjoy your Fringe. This review is far too kind. Inexperience is no excuse for actual torture.

Whatever that second hershey’s kiss thing is, it’s horribly misleading. In fact, the first one is misleading. There is just no chance that there are other shows in Fringe this year that deserve fewer kisses.

Do not attempt to watch this troupe sober. You may be under the impression that at least bad improv is laughably bad, but you will be proven painfully wrong. You’re signing up for an hour of cringing, horrible shame on the actors’ behalf (including intermission, which is not long enough to rinse the awful out of your brain). When, every 14 minutes or so, something comes within shooting distance of funny, involuntary pity laughter will burst awkwardly from your throat. You will leave wishing you’d hired a mule to kick you in the head for an hour instead.

For the love of all that is good, do not go see this show. Go see that pompous-sounding drama about Nazis if you have to, but don’t do this to yourself.

Thank you and enjoy your Fringe.

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